George Redding Niagara Falls was beautiful in this movie, and the movie had an attention-holding plot, but the actors simply did little more than say their lines. Marilyn Monroe was the same sex symbol she always was, but her acting was not outstanding. Jean Peters herself was low-keyed. And while you were not impressed with the type character Joseph Cotton portrayed, at least he did put himself into his role. Henry Hathaway was always a superb director, but this would not rank among his top movies I dare say. Still, the scenery, which included Niagara Falls and the surroundings on the Canadian side, were definitely what pulled people to see it. Again, beautiful scenery, tense story, but not-so-great acting.

Robert J. Maxwell Henry Hathaway has directed a melodrama involving a perfectly normal honeymooning couple (Peters and Showalter) trying to help a troubled couple (Cotton and Monroe) of the kind that marriage counselors call unstable and unsatisfactory.Cotton has just been released from some kind of booby hatch and we take his obsessive paranoia about his wife's fidelity as symptomatic, but in fact he's quite right. Monroe has a lover. They plan to murder Cotton and take off for Chicago.Monroe and her paramour use a vapid pop song that they arrange to have played by the bells in the campanile as a signal for them to meet and fornicate like two aardvarks in heat. The insipid love song may have been meant for public release, maybe sung by Patti Page or someone, but it never leaves the ground. "It's the ONLY song," breathes Monroe. If that were the case the end of civilization would be at hand.But if the song flops, Monroe does not. Hathaway and the studio have lavished as much attention on her as her lover has. She's dressed in startling vermilion dresses, she's festooned with diamonds, and her lips are a glistening scarlet that might blind a companion in a dark room. When she delivers a line her upper lip droops for a second over her lower, as if getting ready to do something entirely on its own.She wears spaghetti shoes. She wears false eyelashes, make up, and that polished lipstick. She wears it in the shower. She wears it while lying unconscious on a hospital bed. And when she walks away from the camera, the shot lingers forever on her undulating rear.Peters and Showalter are anxious to help the tortured couple but Peters discovers some shadowy nooks in the others' marriage and when she tries to tell her husband she dissolves into hysterical gibberish so that an irritated Max tells her to "Stop it now; it was all just a bad dream!" The last third of the picture is more kinetic. There are lots of pursuits, always upward. Frightened people climb rickety wooden staircases that seem to meander through the dripping rocks. People are trapped in stone grottoes, left hanging to small rocks in the St. Lawrence River. And way high up in the campanile, the bells provide silent witness to murder.It's Marilyn Monroe's picture all the way.

Prismark10 Niagara is a Technicolor film noir. The plot is simply not strong enough to be tense or give it an air of mystery.Director Henry Hathaway is left with making the most of the location, Niagara Falls and starlet Marilyn Monroe in various sultry costumes to make the movie mesmerising. Apart from that the rest of the film is poor and is certainly far from being even be rated as good never mind a classic.Polly and Ray Cutler (Jean Peters and Max Showalter) are newly-weds on a delayed honeymoon to Niagara Falls. They meet meet Rose and George Loomis (Marily Monroe and Joseph Cotten) who are still in the Cutlers reserved cabin, it seems George is a bit brittle and neurotic. It is stated that he has been depressed because of his experience in the war.Polly and Ray stay in a nearby cabin and when venturing to the falls Polly sees Rose kissing another man. It seems Rose is plotting to get rid of her husband in Niagara Falls, make it look like an accident or suicide and run off with the younger man. Pretty soon a body is found and Rose collapses in grief and shock but is George really dead?Cotten tries to do his best with his limited characterisation. A man who suffering from mental stress and knows that his wife is cheating on him and maybe plotting to bump him off. Jean Peters does look sexy when she is allowed to but you just feel that this film had the ingredients to be an interesting and intriguing film in the hands of Alfred Hitchcock armed with a better screenplay. Instead we are left with a cack-handed movie with few thrills.

SnoopyStyle The Cutlers (Jean Peters, Max Showalter) are from Toledo, Ohio on their long awaited honeymoon in Niagara Falls, Canada. They arrive at the Rainbow Cabins to find their cabin still occupied by Rose Loomis (Marilyn Monroe). She's a former beer hall waitress in a volatile marriage to George Loomis (Joseph Cotten) who suffered battle fatigue in Korea. She contacts Ted Patrick for some nefarious reason. George goes missing and Rose is hospitalized from the shock. The Cutlers move into the cabin. George surprises a half-asleep Mrs. Cutler. Later at the bottom of the Falls, he tells her that he killed Ted in self-defense and now wants to disappear as a dead man.There are two stars in this movie. It's the power of Niagara Falls and the attraction of Marilyn Monroe. In another age, Monroe would have dined out as a noir femme fatale. She is magnetic on screen. She is convincing as a woman who could drive men crazy and Joesph Cotten embodies that madness. Every men turn their heads when she walks in and the camera focuses on her mercilessly. Jean Peters is a beauty in her own rights but she is downright plain Jane in her presence.